New Giant Plane Operating System for Space to Launch People, Cargo into Orbit

Wednesday, December 14, 2011

Image Credit: Stratolaunch Systems

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Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen and legendary aircraft designer Burt Rutan have teamed up on a new winged rocket that would be carried aloft by a gargantuan twin-fuselage mothership and then dropped from 30,000 feet for the climb to orbit, they announced today… The new rocket will be funded by Allen through a new company known as Stratolaunch Systems and built by Space Exploration Technologies, or SpaceX, of Hawthorne, California…

Read the full report at link below…

Rocket system could lower cost of access to space, Allen says

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Stratolaunch Systems -- a Paul G. Allen Project

Stratolaunch Systems is pioneering innovative solutions to revolutionize space transportation

- Click out the official Stratolaunch Systems website HERE

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Space just might become fun and cool again, over the next 10 years or so.

AubreyJ………

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